We thought we were being rational. We weren’t. From priests with squirt guns of holy water to cats in tiny masks and shoppers wrapped in plastic bags, the pandemic turned daily life into a fever dream. Looking back now, it feels less like history and more like a shared hallucination we all somehow surviv… Continues… What makes these images so unsettling isn’t just how absurd they look now; it’s knowing how normal they felt then. Trams wearing masks, hockey rinks turned into testing centers, cardboard crowds at football games, kids graduating via iPad robots — we improvised because we were...
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